the thing is, if you're a company like MS or IBM, spending $1000 on a domain is worth the tme it would otherwise take to get it renewed every 10 years. You don't know the paperwork, the invoicing, the bills, the accounts, the 'why do we need this domain' questions... buy it once for $1k, forget about it.
and, as far as Network Solutions is concerned, they get the full money, even if the client does go bust! Its win-win all round.
Not so - sure, you pay (77UKP) for the MSDN library, which is licence-free within your company then, or a fair bt more for the TechNet CD wheelbarrow, but that's kind of fair considering how many CDs you get (4 folders full last time I looked).
you read the post fully?! Gosh - I mean, surely you should have simply scanned, saw 'ogg' and started posting about how all those commercial mp3 players don't support the wonderfully clean, efficient, Ogg Vorbis format and how that's a conspiracy by Micro$oft to take over the world with its totlaly rubbish and broken WMV format. That spies on you and reports you to the RIAA if you don't pay the DRM fees.
yeah, that's damn irresponsible. ebay'll be putting the P2P networks out of business in no time. where's the anti-trust authorities when you need 'em?
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really? I see a few 'this is xxx television show, recorded on DVD-R' type auctions, and I report them when I can be bothered - not one of them has been pulled, even when the auction listing says its a copy.
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when was the last time you ate a burger that looked as good as it did in the adverts
I used to know a girl who made the food items you see in adverts, and thank god I've never eaten anything that looked like them - they're made from the proper foodstuff, but them have hairspray, varnish, foam that looks like cream, etc etc put on it to make it look like you expect it to look.
multiple plot lines that can be read in any order based on what books you read after the first 3 (Chronicles). Name one other serial novel with that feature.
Read in any order (though perhaps its a good idea to read the earliest half before the later half), each is stand-alone, but all build on the central universe definition - even taking the same events and portraying them from opposing viewpoints. Highly recommended.
I guess so, that's why I see these damned bouncing web adverts everywhere telling me my computer is spying on me and that I need 'Internet Protection System 5.0' for only $29.99....
I remember back a few years when 2 youths committed suicide, and they happened to enjoy Judas Priest's music. Naturally the parents took JP to the courts (who were found blameless BTW).
One commentator at the time remarked that it was a sad time when the parents took more interest in their kids when they thought they might win compensation than they ever did when the kids were alive.
I figure this is the problem, anything that someone starts to shout about has less to do with the issue at hand, than it does with that person wanting acclaim, money, or publicity.
forget the cooker - think of the fridge! And its on 24x7, that adds up. Whilst you're at it, think how much power those 100W lightbulbs consume, and they're kept on for long stretches. And TV! Don't even think about the cost of running the TV.
All in all, the PC is just another electricity user, ut one that attempts to play nicely with your power bill. Just stick the power-saving options on, and stop worrying over it.
(incidentally, rough figures: 35W for your gfx card, 20W per HDD, 60W per CPU, 15W per 256MB RAM). A benchmark of total power used is here, translated from german. The systems benchmarked used ~170W, the benchmarks are for gfx card consumption, but give a good idea of total power use for a contemporary system (P4 2.5 Ghz, 512Mb).
surprisingly, that's roughly the same with my monitor - OK it uses a lot more energy to keep the screen saver displayed, but in standby it still uses 20W. I figure that's a lot just to keep it doing nothing.
I suggest you look at Outlook 2003 - it integrates with MSN quite nicely. Sure, no use to you if you run Linux/other IM client, but it's at least a stick to wave at the other email clients to get them to.. err... 'innovate' in this direction.
not true - if he has the capability to receive TV broadcasts, then he has to pay.
Every TV that I know of has a tuner in it, so, if you have a TV, you have to pay. Even if you *say* you never use it to watch broadcasts. This also applies to VCRs that have tuners in them.
I think you might get away with it if you have a plasma screen without the tuner box, but if you disconnect the aerial when the inspector comes round, I wouldn't fancy your chances.
I may be wrong here, but I understood the DRM aspect not to stop you from making copies etc, but to stop you placing non-BBC content, or edited content (eg. porn) on the system.
Last thing the BBC wants is for you to distribute kiddie porn and pretend that its the latest episode of some children's programme. With the 'DRM signing' you wouldn't be able to do that.
So they discounted the viruses and email crap that require some user to click the attachment called 'Im a virus, click me now'.
That actually sounds like a fair attack vector to ignore in compiling these, otherwise you couldn't derive any meaningful stats - eg. if I posted my password on to my monitor, and someone hacked my workstation (by using that password), would you be able to say 'that workstation OS is inherently insecure'? If you couldn't, then you can't allow similar user stupidity to feature in these statistics.
I don't think that runnign updates fall into this 'stupid user' catageory, especially as Windows boxes are more likely not to be admin-ed by clued up admins.
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I think you only heard what you wanted to hear. No-one said that, especially in that context.
the thing is, if you're a company like MS or IBM, spending $1000 on a domain is worth the tme it would otherwise take to get it renewed every 10 years. You don't know the paperwork, the invoicing, the bills, the accounts, the 'why do we need this domain' questions... buy it once for $1k, forget about it.
and, as far as Network Solutions is concerned, they get the full money, even if the client does go bust! Its win-win all round.
good idea.. take a look at this old /. article from august 2003 where a dutch magazine tested old CDRs for their data retention.
Not so - sure, you pay (77UKP) for the MSDN library, which is licence-free within your company then, or a fair bt more for the TechNet CD wheelbarrow, but that's kind of fair considering how many CDs you get (4 folders full last time I looked).
But its free if you use the MSDN library Web site
or the Technet Web site
you read the post fully?! Gosh - I mean, surely you should have simply scanned, saw 'ogg' and started posting about how all those commercial mp3 players don't support the wonderfully clean, efficient, Ogg Vorbis format and how that's a conspiracy by Micro$oft to take over the world with its totlaly rubbish and broken WMV format. That spies on you and reports you to the RIAA if you don't pay the DRM fees.
yeah, that's damn irresponsible. ebay'll be putting the P2P networks out of business in no time. where's the anti-trust authorities when you need 'em?
really? I see a few 'this is xxx television show, recorded on DVD-R' type auctions, and I report them when I can be bothered - not one of them has been pulled, even when the auction listing says its a copy.
when was the last time you ate a burger that looked as good as it did in the adverts
I used to know a girl who made the food items you see in adverts, and thank god I've never eaten anything that looked like them - they're made from the proper foodstuff, but them have hairspray, varnish, foam that looks like cream, etc etc put on it to make it look like you expect it to look.
multiple plot lines that can be read in any order based on what books you read after the first 3 (Chronicles). Name one other serial novel with that feature.
.. CJ Cherryh's Company Wars/Merchanter/Union novels.
maybe I'm mistaking what you mean here, but
Read in any order (though perhaps its a good idea to read the earliest half before the later half), each is stand-alone, but all build on the central universe definition - even taking the same events and portraying them from opposing viewpoints. Highly recommended.
I guess so, that's why I see these damned bouncing web adverts everywhere telling me my computer is spying on me and that I need 'Internet Protection System 5.0' for only $29.99....
who cares about the freezer - I wonder what will happen to the computer as the heat melts the ice around it.... drip.. drip.. drip.. fizz... bang.
:)
So the OP was probably telling the truth - but he didn't mention whether the computer was working anymore
I don't know - there are a great many PHP projects out there that offer the use of PostgreSQL instead of MySQL.
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This is essentially Microsoft's new version of the C programing language.
Not at all, C# is essentially Microsoft's new version of the Java programming language, and platform.
Eh, the second half of that post was redundant. Serves me right for being a fast reader. :-/
*makes a note to read the entire parent before writing a reply*
what's this? Posters not bothering to read even the parent post. I thought it was bad enough to skip the article.
I remember back a few years when 2 youths committed suicide, and they happened to enjoy Judas Priest's music. Naturally the parents took JP to the courts (who were found blameless BTW).
One commentator at the time remarked that it was a sad time when the parents took more interest in their kids when they thought they might win compensation than they ever did when the kids were alive.
I figure this is the problem, anything that someone starts to shout about has less to do with the issue at hand, than it does with that person wanting acclaim, money, or publicity.
forget the cooker - think of the fridge! And its on 24x7, that adds up. Whilst you're at it, think how much power those 100W lightbulbs consume, and they're kept on for long stretches. And TV! Don't even think about the cost of running the TV.
All in all, the PC is just another electricity user, ut one that attempts to play nicely with your power bill. Just stick the power-saving options on, and stop worrying over it.
(incidentally, rough figures: 35W for your gfx card, 20W per HDD, 60W per CPU, 15W per 256MB RAM).
A benchmark of total power used is here, translated from german. The systems benchmarked used ~170W, the benchmarks are for gfx card consumption, but give a good idea of total power use for a contemporary system (P4 2.5 Ghz, 512Mb).
surprisingly, that's roughly the same with my monitor - OK it uses a lot more energy to keep the screen saver displayed, but in standby it still uses 20W. I figure that's a lot just to keep it doing nothing.
I thought it was obvious from message context - IM.
I suggest you look at Outlook 2003 - it integrates with MSN quite nicely. Sure, no use to you if you run Linux/other IM client, but it's at least a stick to wave at the other email clients to get them to.. err... 'innovate' in this direction.
yeah, is this the (universal) plug n play that almost every firewall blocks immediately?
corrected the grammar before printing up thousands of copies.
I believe that'll be one of next year's demotivator posters...
I don't know - ICANN stomped on sitefinder v1 almost straightaway. I call that a pretty fast moving process.
Perhaps it only goes slowly once you get the hourly-billed lawyers involved.
not true - if he has the capability to receive TV broadcasts, then he has to pay.
Every TV that I know of has a tuner in it, so, if you have a TV, you have to pay. Even if you *say* you never use it to watch broadcasts. This also applies to VCRs that have tuners in them.
I think you might get away with it if you have a plasma screen without the tuner box, but if you disconnect the aerial when the inspector comes round, I wouldn't fancy your chances.
I may be wrong here, but I understood the DRM aspect not to stop you from making copies etc, but to stop you placing non-BBC content, or edited content (eg. porn) on the system.
Last thing the BBC wants is for you to distribute kiddie porn and pretend that its the latest episode of some children's programme. With the 'DRM signing' you wouldn't be able to do that.
So they discounted the viruses and email crap that require some user to click the attachment called 'Im a virus, click me now'.
That actually sounds like a fair attack vector to ignore in compiling these, otherwise you couldn't derive any meaningful stats - eg. if I posted my password on to my monitor, and someone hacked my workstation (by using that password), would you be able to say 'that workstation OS is inherently insecure'? If you couldn't, then you can't allow similar user stupidity to feature in these statistics.
I don't think that runnign updates fall into this 'stupid user' catageory, especially as Windows boxes are more likely not to be admin-ed by clued up admins.